From: "Strong, Lee" <StrongL at MTMC.ARMY.MIL>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Are You An Islar or Islata?
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 15:49:43 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

	Some people do not learn despite having a good example right in
front of them.
	Mike Walsh said that you knew something about Islandia that you
wished to share with the list????   B-)

-----Original Message-----
From: Erica VD Ginter [mailto:eginter at klgai.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 3:49 PM
To: 'WSFA members'
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Are You An Islar or Islata?

There have been Van Dommelens at Penn State since 1958 and still they can't
alphabetize it correctly!

Islata Erica
who holds the deed to half of Islandia

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Walsh [mailto:MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu]
Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 9:54 AM
To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Are You An Islar or Islata?

http://www.geog.psu.edu/alumni.html

mjw

>>> StrongL at MTMC.ARMY.MIL 04/04/02 09:54AM >>>
Clue #2:  South Karain Continent.

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Walsh [mailto:MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu]
Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 9:44 AM
To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] Re: West Virginia

Clue #1: Austin Tappan Wright

mjw

>>> StrongL at MTMC.ARMY.MIL 04/04/02 09:46AM >>>
	Whatever do you mean?  B->

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Walsh [mailto:MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu]
Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 9:34 AM
To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] Re: West Virginia

> StrongL at MTMC.ARMY.MIL 04/04/02 09:34AM >>>
>	Yes, obscure history is very much fun!  The state of Lincoln
>(southern Texas) was another blacks only proposal and there have been at
>least three maintstream novels and three science fiction novels with =
blacks
>only states or countries within the borders of the United States.
>	There was also a proposal to move all the Jews in the world to =
upper
>New York State, which would certainly have altered the news from the =
Middle
>East.
>	The Upper Peninsula of Michigan proposed to become the state of
>Superior and the western panhandle of Nebraska proposed to secede and
>either
>become a separate state or join Wyoming.  Martha's Vinyard and Nantucket
>islands proposed to secede from Massachusetts at one time and the state =
=
=
of
>Colorado offered to annex them if they did.  There was a proposal to =
change
>the name of North Dakota to just Dakota because "North" sounded cold.  =
=
=
And
>there have been recurrent proposals to divide California, most recently =
=
=
into
>3 states.  In 1859, the state of California did pass a real law to divide
>into 2 states but Congress did not approve so we are spared too many
>Californias.  During the early Civil War, the Mayor of New York City
>proposed to make NYC, Long Island and Staten Island the independent free
>state of Tri-Insula.
>	Shameless plug:  I incorporated a lot of this stuff into an =
upcoming
>alternate history novel series, including Tri-Insula, which I renamed
>Islandia

You'll be hearing from Erica about that . . .

mjw

because the projected state is almost entirely composed of islands.
>B-)